American Reacts Top 10 Places to Visit In Ireland

[@TheFaruk2]

French here and i lived there so magical , beautiful country and people.❤

[@declanrussell2232]

Good to see Donegal well represented in this one. I spent most of my summer holidays there as my mum was from Derry.

[@Quessir]

Yes, the native name for Ireland is Éire, pronounced something close to "air-ah". Not "air" as he says it! They were also there to show German pilots that they had reached Ireland, not Britain, and to not bomb us, please. Yes, the stone walls are to seperate fields that are usually used for grazing. And yes, those are crosses, and they are indeed graves!

[@PanglossDr]

The Éire signs were for all pilots. They were all numbered. British and American pilots knew the numbers so could tell exactly where they were, German pilots couldn't.

[@LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk]

Shut up, your country is overrun with outsiders.

[@grahambamford9073]

Dublin was bombed once from what I remember, at the 5 lamps, multiple people killed. Various German airmen were interned in Ireland, if they crash landed, also where I'm living in West Cork, an American B17 flying fortress bomber made an emergency landing in fields near the town of Clonakilty, they were welcomed by the locals and stayed at the local hotel while the aeroplane was repaired. Before it took off again and they were gone. Various aircraft crashed during the war on mountains around the coast, some of the aircraft wreckage is still were if fell.

[@brendanmaguire4134]

Connor. There's a 3 part documentary on Ireland called. THE ISLAND. 1st episode is about geology and how the island formed 3.8billion years ago.. and yes BILLION years ago. ✌🇮🇪

[@gerardflynn7382]

Thanks for the info, I must look that one up. 👍

[@gerardflynn7382]

Thanks for the info, I must look that one up. 👍

[@brendanmaguire4134]

@@gerardflynn7382 i think the program was made by the BBC.

[@valerieh84]

Hi Conner, The Giant’s Causeway was created from a lava flow that cooled very quickly (in geological terms) in the seawater, that is what gave the columns their hexagonal structure. Éire is one of several names that the pre-Celtic Irish gave to the island of Ireland. Erin is another one after the same goddess. The Éire signs (all 95 of them) were built out of white limestone all around the coast of the Free State (now Republic of Ireland) during WWII to warn the Luftwaffe that they were over neutral territory. They might have been looking for Belfast in the northeast of the island. The German planes got it wrong once though and dropped two bombs over Dublin’s north docks in 1942, probably mistaking it for Liverpool. You are right, the majority of our population is on the east coast with Dublin a major port since Viking times and also Belfast developing in the 18th/19 th centuries. The grass is short because of the wind, it just can’t grow so close to the sea. It is more ‘normal’ in the midlands where the cattle will take care of it. In the west the irregularity of the walls is just due to a good farmer’s eye really 😉 To make a usable field, you needed to clear the rocks, break them and then to dispose of the rocks, you just built walls. No science, no instruments (and no title deeds). Whoever was hard working enough to do this back breaking work then fertilise the land with weeds collected from the beaches, owned the right to farm the field. There is a play by John B. Keane, a native of Kerry ( and also a publican) called The Field that describes the sense of ownership that comes with this type of work. It was adapted into a film with Richard Harris (a native of Limerick) and John Hurt (a resident of county Kildare) in 1989, I think. BTW, in English your name is spelt Conor/Connor from the Irish Conchobar ‘master of hounds’.

[@mikekelly5869]

There were more than two Gernan bombs. They also bombed the South Circular Road. One of the bombs flattened a synagogue. Hitler's government paid compensation, and this was used to build a new synagogue. I wonder if he ever found out.

[@Dreyno]

That grass is short because they’re meadows. That’s highly fertile farmland. In some places the wind makes grass growth difficult but not there. Edit: Oops, you’re talking about the Skelligs. I thought you meant at the Giant’s Causeway.

[@gerarddeegan1164]

The grass in ireland is so good becase it rains alot in the temperate climate and because its next to the atlantic ocean😊

[@jamiegrant5955]

Yes, and as a result of this rain there's also a lot of free calcium and magnesium in the soil as most of the county's geology (the flat arable bit) is comprised of carboniferous rock.

[@dzzope]

The population definitely thins out as you go west but you will still see houses at least scattered across most of the countryside apart from the wildest parts, which aren't particularly massive but are beautiful. The Eire xx signs were to show all aircraft they were over Ireland during WWII. It was our only defence from bombers. The Burren is incredible. Such a unique landscape it jas many plant species not found anywhere else. Donegal and Kerry are probably the most scenic counties with the most variation in landscape. Rolling hills, lakes, rivers and forrest leading to barren hiils covered in heather and peat bog, mountains, valles, cliffs and coast with every imaginable combination between. Look into the weather.. it rains probably 3/4 or even 4/5 days. Might only be showers but equally could be steady light or medium rain all day for days at a time. That and the large ammount of livestock grazing on much of it. It is Very green when you get some good light. Mysterious in the mist and dreary when overcast.. which happens allot. And wither has V short daylight hours. 8.30am - 4,10pm being sunrise and sunset for the winter solstice. (And thats dublin, lil bit shorter on north coast)

[@gerarddeegan1164]

15 of us are traveling to ireland again takeing in the midlands dublin mayo cork and clare and limerick🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🍀☘🍀☘🍀☘😊😊😊😊

[@Janie_Morrison]

Ireland such a beautiful country and always was my mum's people come from Ireland the talk broad Irish in your car understand them sometimes

[@Eoinmcpar]

You are always welcome to visit 💓

[@PaulJohnston-n5w]

I think has someone pointed out - some of the manicured grass relates to Royal Portrush Golf Course which hosts major tournaments including the British Open ( although it’s just called the Open because it’s the original). It’s ranked among the best Golf Courses in the world. The sites - down the Giants Causeway and the ruins of Dunluce Castle ( 13th Century) ( used in Game of Thrones) make it one of the most spectacularly scenic areas for a Golf Course anywhere in the world. Plus with the wind - if you hit the ball up in the air there is a chance that you will end up further back than the tee from which you started. Even if it’s raining this is an exhilarating place and if the sun shines it feels like heaven.

[@Dreyno]

There’s so much more to see on that route. Obviously he can’t mention all of them. Slieve League, Gleniff Horseshoe, Glencar Valley, Achill Island, Sky Road, Slea Head, Connor Pass, Healy Pass, Mizen Head etc. etc.

[@jamescorcoran193]

My son camped for 3 days on the Skellig doing a survey on behalf of the Board of Works, the government body responsible for the island. It is a truly magical place.

[@andrewboland1062]

You are much welcome here, as I know you'd appreciate this beautiful land whenever you visit

[@sunshinereggae417]

I would also like to go to ireland:) want to go together 😅 Greetings from Finland:)

[@davidcullenmac]

I dont think I have every commented on any of your videos before. Avid follower. However as I'm irish, I just wanted to say that you have a genuine natural insight and laid back empathy that is short on reaction vids. Also, yes Ireland has truly unique green, and lots of it. I have worked abroad and on coming home, the green and sheer 'freshness' of the country is what gets you most, you even dont appreciate as you grow up here. Also yes, the east most populated, further west you go the less so. Various historical, cultural and geographical reasons for that, soil shallower and the medieval Norman / English inhabitants pushed the natives back that way - resultant in enforced v natural population divergence

[@seanmcmichael2551]

Conor, I'm from near the first location ... the Giant's Causeway. But ALL of Ireland's coastline offers great scenery. There's a documented route called the Wild Atlantic Way, which pretty much encompasses the sites that yer man captured so well. By the way, I laughed when you asked what mows the grass ! But you did at least answer it yourself. Yes ... the population density outside Dublin is very low. But even so, every little town and village will have loads of bars to occupy you.

[@richardbarrow6606]

Grass Heaven ☺️💚🇮🇪

[@LFire12]

The walls were partially built to use up the limestone taken from the ground to make it farmable. And to help with erosion. The buliding of the walls is a skill in of itself, and you'll see them not just in the Aran Islands, but all around Ireland, albeit especially in the West. You're not wrong about the grass either. Softest, best, must lush grass...one of the upsides of the rain! And also lends to the quality of the dairy produce!

[@charlesd3a]

If you're of Irish heritage you're Irish.

[@sunshinereggae417]

About erosion.. the ocean hits agains the rock, making turbulence under the sea and little by little removes the rock, until it has removed that much so that the cliff above cant hold anymore and just drops down. Therefore is creares sharp cliffs. And that happens many times..

[@donallmccrudden4812]

The cliff that dun aonghasa is on on inis mór, arran islands, is 330 feet high, theirs massive chinks of rock that were chipped away by the sea lying on top on the cliff, the sea is that powerful

[@spruce381]

Yep, far fewer in the west. Getting towards 7m people, mostly Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Derry and other cities Erosion - tens of thousands of years.

[@Joseph13163]

The grass near the giant causeway would probably be kept short by cattle rather than sheep as sheep are usually for rougher grazing on the uplands ,and also for haymaking

[@Searover749]

In Western Europe, dominant winds almost permanently come from the West (Atlantic wind), from south west in summer (warm wind from Açores), and from north west in winter (cold wind from Iceland). Both are quite humid, as they both cross the Atlantic ocean. That's why western Europe is not very dry, and the irish meadows stay green all the time. For their confort, people often live in "off wind" areas : on the west coast, but protected by hills, or downright in the eastern parts of the country (the wind loses power when crossing lands). As a joke, in western Brittany, we call that phenomena, the "celtic monsoon" ! Fortunately, the Gulf Stream prevents temperatures from going too low (not below O°C), even in the northernmost islands of the european west coast... So the ships can navigate all year long without meeting ice growlers, below the arctic circle, but the storms in northern Atlantic are huge, and it's not rare to see 20 meters high waves, during the winter ! As a navy veteran from the Northern Fleet (based in Cherbourg - Normandy) I have incredible memories about some very "harsh cruises" (actually navy operations, during the 90's, consisting in surveying russian subs departures from their Poliyarnii naval base, in Barents sea, near North Cape : it's no longer classified information now. Just look at "In the hunt of Red October" : it was at these times and in these places).

[@seustaceRotterdam]

There’s more, like Killarney, Dingle (my favourite), Cork, Wicklow and of Dublin

[@kirks1234]

If you have an Irish grandparent ( or parent ) you’re automatically entitled to Irish citizenship.

[@conallmclaughlin4545]

11:59 rain... Feckin lots of rain. It could easily rain here every day for 3 or 4 weeks at a time 😂

[@LFire12]

Ah now, don't exaggerate and scare him. If it rained every day for 3/4 weeks at a time, we'd be feckin' Venice!

[@kroche90]

​@@LFire12when we get the 4 seasons in one day, it's very possible to get rain at least once a day for a month...

[@Ayns.L14A]

yes Connor they are graves

[@hughraftery]

There is a lot of green landscape due to the temperate climate. Plenty of sunshine and rain all year round. The weather is predictable, in that it changes constantly 😁.

[@sean864]

Yes u are 'irish' American, the mother land i understand. Say whatever u like. 👌

[@kenrubotham]

9:15 These small walled plots of land are an eventual result of the The Popery Act (Penal Law) of 1704, which required land owned by Roman Catholics to be divided equally between all a landholder's sons, both legitimate and illegitimate, on his death.

[@gerarddeegan1164]

Golf courses are some of the tidy grass areas

[@James-wp3jq]

That island is where Luke Skywalker was hiding .

[@enemde3025]

grow up !!

[@James-wp3jq]

@enemde3025 Never !

[@bbannion8196]

@@James-wp3jq😂😂

[@naomhfermin]

Watch star wars. Do t know which one but one from 2010 ish probably actually 2015. The very very last scene with Luke Skywalker is on Skellig Michaèl. I'm Irish but have lived in Pamplona for years. When we I brought the kids to see the movie I jumped out of my sit and screamed "that'd Skellig Michaèl at the top of my voice. Spent an hour afterwards giving the locals tips on where to go and what to see. Head along the west coast as this chap did. The east is beautiful too but it all depends on how much time you have. For 1 or 2 weeks. I'd base myself in Galway. Then head north and south along the coast. Bed and breakfast accommodation is incredible in my humble opinion

[@James-wp3jq]

@@naomhfermin yes that's right, it's at the very end of the force awakens I think, you see all those steps going up to the top .

[@heritage195]

Eire pronounced Eir ah. The Eire markings were put in place at the request of the USAAF to guide them in from the Atlantic during WW2.😊

[@PaulVincent-n2x]

The giants causeway, a natural rock formation. The shape is pronounced. hex, ag onal.

[@gerarddeegan1164]

The hexacon rock formations are frim ancient volcanic lava in the giants caseway😊

[@raytracer2651]

Glendalough should be in the list.

[@leonardmcdermott7703]

The islands are so beautiful, no wonder Luke Skywalker lives there.

[@malpa2345]

Americans love their grass 😂

[@McJibbin]

Damn right!!

[@kroche90]

We should introduce him to silage season in Ireland 😂😂😂

[@UnaCullinan]

I LIVE IN IRELAND

[@ClaireQuinn566]

In this video there was no mention of the many towns, villages and cities in Ireland. A lot of Americans just think of Ireland as you see in the video. I've even been asked "what do you DO over there" or even "do you have electricity" 🙄. Others just thought of Ireland as green fields. You should visit the Burren area in County Clare. That's where you see the amazing scenery with all the rocks - left over after the ice age apparently. Come to Ireland - May and September are good because it's cheaper - you avoid a lot of tourists that come June to August. There's lots to see & do. Best wishes from Ireland. 👍🇮🇪

[@dooley-ch]

According to the Irish Constitution the name of the country is Eire in Irish and Ireland in English. An act of the Irish parliament, defines the description of the country as the Republic of Ireland. And the Ireland Act of 1949, passed by the parliament of the UK states that the name of the country in the UK is Eire this is why you will hear Ireland being referred to in the UK as Eire in all official documents and communications. Interesting the act goes on to state that Ireland is not a foreign country for the purposes of UK legislation and so Irish citizens enjoy the same rights as British citizens in the UK.

[@mikekelly5869]

The same is also true in reverse.

[@gerarddeegan1164]

You have to go to ireland🍀☘🍀☘🍀☘🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪😊

[@sungi7814]

I always wonder why there are so few trees, they would have enaugh rain.

[@sunshinereggae417]

They have cutted the forest

[@sungi7814]

@@sunshinereggae417 And the huge amount of sheep doesn't allow anything to grow back, like in Scotland.

[@garethm3242]

In ancient times, our island was largely covered in dense forest. Until the middle ages really, when wolves and bears also existed here in the wild. There's a massive movement currently towards "rewilding", to increase what little natural forest cover remains. Over grazing is the short answer as to why this has happened. Pastoral farming is huge here. And hugely damaging.

[@Searover749]

the strong winds also prevent many small trees from surviving...

[@naomhfermin]

​@@garethm3242 lost most of our forests to the sassenach when they used it to build their ships

[@DerryK67]

Hiya just fyi GALWAY is pronounced GAWL-WAY, not like how it’s pronounced in the video 🤦‍♀️

[@Ophelia771]

I'm getting really irritated now when people are doing info videos but fail to research the correct pronunciation. Visuals are great.

[@kroche90]

​@@Ophelia771I think the issue is they use Google to pronounce the word for them. I cringe at how Google maps pronounces placenames in Ireland

[@maritnordin6017]

You are an American. Trust me.

[@nessasmyth8002]

Eire abu

[@julianmcwey866]

All so cliche places apart from the skelligs!! So much more to see but you will need a month and a car

[@MichaelCoIIins]

Sooooo,... When are you coming to visit me bro!? First pint on me ;)

[@amadain17]

its pronounced air-ah

[@johngleeson7589]

You are Irish 😊😅

[@nessasmyth8002]

Yes Eire pronounced air ah is Irish for Ireland

[@nualapatriciaodowd211]

Please learn how to pronounce the place names when you come to Ireland. It makes me cringe at times!!!!

[@heritage195]

Please don't blaspheme.

[@AnotherGayGuy]

Oh Christ, we wouldn't want that. Jesus, no!

[@mikekelly5869]

Yeah, and for fcuk's sake, stop cursing.

[@spazzymacgee5648]

The would be fucking awfull